Not sure at all about this upcoming Vienna premiere. Would you say it’s appropriate?
In KaiserRequiem, Viktor Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis merges with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Requiem to create a musico-dramatic dance evening. It is a dialogue between two works about the great questions of human existence, but also a collaboration between all the sections of the Volksoper Wien: the dancers of the Vienna State Ballet, soloists and the chorus and orchestra of the Volksoper, directed and choreographed by Andreas Heise. With KaiserRequiem, Omer Meir Wellber, who is also conducting the piece, has created an unusual combination of Ullmann’s almost sixty-minute chamber opera with perhaps the most famous torso in music history: Mozart’s musical legacy, the Requiem in D minor KV 626….
The second performance of the premiere series will take place on the occasion of the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust and Mozart’s birthday on 27 January 2025.
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